What's New in Deep Learning Research: Inside Google's Semantic Experiences

Last week Google Research made news with the release of Semantic Experiences, a website that serves as a playground to evaluate some of the new advancements in natural language understanding(NLU) technologies. The initial release included two pseudo-games that illustrates the practical viability of some of Google's latest NLU research. The first experience included in the new website is called Talk to Books and enables users converse with a machine learning-trained algorithm that surfaces answers to questions with relevant passages from human-written text. As described by the Google Research team, Talk to Books allows you to "make a statement or ask a question, and the tool finds sentences in books that respond, with no dependence on keyword matching." They also added that, "In a sense you are talking to the books, getting responses which can help you determine if you're interested in reading them or not."